East India Company and Trade in South India: Madras, 17461803

About Moola Atchi Reddy

Moola Atchi Reddy is a former professor at the School of Economics University of Hyderabad Telangana India. Joining as the first faculty member in 1979 he retired as professor in 2006 after serving for nearly 27 years. He is a recipient of meritorious medals from the two Departments of Economics Andhra University Waltair. He was a research assistant for the project on the Cambridge Economic History of India Vol. 2 ed. Dharma Kumar (1982). With a PhD in economic history from the Delhi School of Economics he worked at Ford Foundation New Delhi and Sri Venkateswara University (19768). He won the R.S. Mathur Memorial young Social Scientist award 1986 for the best paper presentation: Trends in the Agricultural Wages in Some South Indian Districts 18001980 Indian Journal of Labour Economics XXVIII:4 1986 pp. 30749. He has published three books: Lands and Tenants in South India: A Study of Nellore District 18501990 (1996); Trade and Commerce of the East India Company in India (Madras) vols. 3 (2006); and The East India Company and Urban Environment in Colonial South India Madras 17461803 (Routledge 2022). More than 60 of his articles have been published in refereed journals and edited books in addition to over 100 partly and unpublished papers presented in various conferences seminars and workshops. Studies of colonial Madras/Chennai besides irrigation and labour problems are his present research interests.